Monthly Archives: June 2010

Gotchas with Rooting a MyTouch Slide

I got a hold of an extra MyTouch slide for testing and wanted to root it in order to put some a different ROM on there (namely Cyanogen). The MyTouch slide root instructions are fairly well documented and have worked for a lot of people. Unfortunately they did not work for me and I got…

Android App – Eventdroid Released

Last week I released Eventdroid, the first Android based Eventbrite Bar code Scanner / Event Check-in App. With this app you can check in attendees to your Eventbrite app with your Android phone using a bar code scanner – or if you prefer to do it manually, you can check them in one by one…

Pruning Elmah Files with Powershell

We use (and love) Elmah. Due to many reasons we decided to opt for the XML file logging to AppData. This works great and is super simple to set up. The only issue is that on our test and production servers we were filling up the AppData directory and after awhile Elmah.axd would take minutes…

Android: Db4o StackOverflowError

I‘m using db4o for a persistence store in an Android app since db4o allows FREE usage in Android apps I decide it would be a good fit. Until I ran into the an error I could not get around for a couple of weeks. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been dealing with an…

Db4o’s Java Doc/Documentation/Help in Eclipse

This may be easy to remember for others (and I’m sure I’ll remember it eventually) but here is… When I mouse over a call, I want the java-doc to be presented so that I can see what the api options/docs are. Just referencing the jar is not enough. Here’s what you have to do after…